1. The Indian Woman in Kamala Markandaya
According to Meera Shirdwadkar, this trait is inbred in an Indian woman,"[T]he cause of her suffering springs mainly from poverty and natural calamity. ... Their courage lies in meek or at times cheerful way of facing poverty or calamity" Rukmani, and her daughter Ira display suffering throughout the novel. ... She endures blow after blow from life: poverty, famine, the divorce of her barren daughter, the deaths of her sons, her daughter's prostitution, and finally her husband's death because she has been taught to bear her sorrows in silence and sees them as a chastening process...
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